Supercrumpet

I watched a good handful of BTOD's videos when researching nicer chairs, but I didn't realize they had a big refurbished section. Good resource. Crandall especially has a super impressive selection of refurbished and used stuff. However, out of their (relatively) cheaper stuff, it doesn't look like I'd save much vs Amazon, and the best option they had included a couple blemishes and has since been purchased anyways. Really really great site though, worth keeping in mind for the future. Thanks for that. I think I'm gonna go for the Amazon option. The shipping time is an extra incentive too, this Ikea dining chair is killing me.

Surprise, I made the same mistake but in a completely different way. When I popped the 3070 Ti in my 24/7 folding rig (evening of the 17th), I checked my passkey to be sure this wouldn't happen, but naturally I checked in the wrong place and points must once again be rolled back. I fixed it a few hours ago on my end, apologies once more.

Great prizes, thank you for offering!

I thought about doing that but I didn't think we had a spare fan lying around. Didn't expect it to make that much of a difference, if that's the expected improvement then I may ask the folks back at home to see if they could set something up for me.

I had honestly totally disregarded stuff branded as from office supply stores, but the Amphion actually looks pretty nice for the price. Considering cost and my preference to have a headrest, I think that's my preferred out of the three. I keep seeing this suggestion, or something along those lines. It seems like that's a symptom of the general market having an overload of mediocre $50 - $200 basic office and gaming chairs, and a lot of super high quality $800+ chairs, but not much in between that's good value. Anyways I did some poking around and I didn't find anything particularly appealing around me. If I was more capable of living with either a chair with no back or a $10 dining chair from Ikea for hours a day, I'd be more patient and probably wait for something like this. With that being said, I think I may actually go for this. It's not a Leap, but seems to be a really low price for a Steelcase. If I like it, I can get the add-on headrest elsewhere to fulfill that desire. Quick shipping from Amazon, and their convenient return policy if things don't work out so well. Also interested in trying out a mesh chair. Thoughts? Sorry! Something went wrong! WWW.AMAZON.COM

I'm not really interested in the gamer chair aesthetic since they seem pretty gaudy to me and the only one I ever sat it (yeah, massive sample size, I know) wasn't the most comfortable thing I've ever felt, especially considering the price. I'm interested to see what you think of yours long-term though. You know, if I end up not bothering with the whole car seat idea, using it as a cushy rolling stool at the FSAE shop isn't a bad idea at all.

So that folding rig is at home two hours away, so I wont be able to fiddle with it physically for a little bit, but that definitely puts an idea in my head for a long-term solution. It's set up in an open top HAF XB right now, and I bet it wouldn't be too hard to rig up a small aluminum extrusion frame held on with some 3D printed brackets. Definitely something I'll look into for later.

I've just witnessed the death of my third office chair. The first was really cheap, probably around $100, and the hydraulic piston gave out after a few years. The second was free from a friend, works great, but the cushion material is peeling and it looks pretty gross. The third was also $100, and about an hour ago, finally gave out after the plastic arms holding the seat base and seat back together cracked and the back fell off with me in it. Was pretty spectacular, but I guess I have a cool stool now. Anyways, I think it's time that I did something different. I'm interested in getting something nicer since I plant my butt in front of this PC for far too many hours per day doing a wide variety of useless things, so I'll up my budget to maybe $300-400? I don't think I'm ready to commit to something double that price, but I'm not sure what's good in that middle bracket. Meanwhile, I think I'll hold onto the base of this chair, give the cushions to a friend who's more crafty than I am, and then try to find a car seat to put on this base and have a cool backup chair. I'm in the US, and I'm open to driving somewhere within an hour or two and picking it up myself if there's a good suggestion that comes with some astronomical shipping price. Thanks!

Popped a 3070 Ti into my folding rig so that should be a healthy PPD boost. I think now I'm looking at a little over 15M total PPD on days when I don't do a lot of gaming. However, since it's crammed in there with my ETF 1070 Ti, and I gave it the upper slot, it runs pretty dang hot. Like "high 80s C with 100% fan speed" hot. So naturally, it's thermally throttling itself a bit, which I know it's designed to do. However, is it acceptable to be in a state of thermally throttling 24/7? I'd rather not kill this card prematurely. I can look into undervolting if necessary.

I'm in! CptAsian.

Lol I just found this thread and thought about my dual GPU cards and you just had to swoop in with the Teslas! Extremely cool, I haven't seen pictures of a quad GPU PCB before.

Nice, that's a really good name. Tbh I didn't get the reference at first haha.

In my most recent build I also stuffed an itx board and a 3070 Ti into a fullsize case. The card barely fit because of the layout of the drive bays; it was rather comical indeed. Any significance behind the name? Glad you got more of your hardware working for you.

Yeah, 6.5 sounds okay. Might be a little low but that can be my penalty haha. Thank you.

That's how I navigated to the AppData folder, it was only the FAHClient folder that was missing. I tried showing hidden folders as well just in case and nothing changed.

Nice, what hardware did you add?

Yeah I had no issues reading the UI, the biggest thing was looking at cars at the end of the straight I'm on and not being able to tell what car/who it is, and general lack of inability to make detailed observations like that.

I used an Oculus Rift CV1 for a couple years and actually switched back. VR is less consistent and has more small issues, UI/data display is much more limited, I live alone so if I've got headphones on I'm more comfortable at least having one of my major senses in reality, I can get a lot more detail on distant vehicles with monitors, and it's a little more fatiguing for longer stints/races. Also I do occasionally live stream, and monitors are a lot more stream-friendly, I've found. Obviously for some people, those aren't issues, but that's been my experience. I'm sure with a newer and nicer headset, I'd have a better experience, but my current monitor setup cost about the same and it's fantastic, just as long as I'm not actively adjusting it. Oh and I get to ogle my fancy wheel.

Honestly I'm holding my breath a little on judging the new regs since both of those circuits have been pretty good with overtaking already. I'm curious to see if there's a change at tracks like Catalunya. The first two races were definitely fantastic though.

Anyone else following this year's F1 season (or any other series) closely so far? Gonna be up nice and late for the next couple nights watching the Australian GP + qualifying life.

Been a while since this thread has seen the light of day. Finally got my CSL DD a few days ago after ordering it in late January or early February if I remember correctly. Set it up last night, had some issues at first but I think we're good to go. Feels pretty good, but I've cranked the FFB up so it'll take some getting used to. Unfortunately all of the iRacing series I'm normally interested in are at pretty crap tracks this week so I don't have that much motivation. Next week should be better. Also, after I move to a new apartment over the summer, I think I'm going to splurge on an 80/20 monitor stand. The one I designed and cobbled together works but it's a massive pain to adjust, and I can't bring the side monitors close to me at much of an angle. Takes up an ungodly amount of space currently.

Believe it or not, I don't have that folder. It just doesn't exist. I Googled around for the file path and it appears that what you posted is correct, but I can't find and F@H data on my computer outside of the installation folder.

Wow, I was honestly really confused when I first read this because I'd forgotten they just skipped over the 5700/X a few years ago and it hasn't previously existed. When they announced the 5000 series, the 5700X was the one I was looking for specs-wise, so now I might end up with one some day. Happy with where my hardware is for the moment though.

Good info indeed! Hopefully Intel will be competitive and interesting enough that you'll have to make some major edits in the near future.

Not such a bad way to spend your time, you may as well make your time/money/unhealthy spending desires work for you a little. I meant to ask yesterday, what's your daily board? I have two that I go back and forth between on my main PC so I'm always curious to see if other folks that have a lot of boards just use one or rotate through them all.